Current Events > Corona Virus - Part 3 - Finally Some Good News!

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Crepes
02/17/20 8:40:35 AM
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Didn't see a 3rd topic so thought I'd make it.

Some good news. Like for like cases have been decreasing since the beginning of Feb so while it's still spreading it's slowing down.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%9320_Wuhan_coronavirus_outbreak#Epidemiology

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Were_Wyrm
02/17/20 8:52:15 AM
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Time to spend points making it airborne.

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MuayThai85
02/17/20 9:39:55 AM
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This is like the 6th.

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Elmer_Glue
02/17/20 11:36:18 AM
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P sure China is just reporting less cases...
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Noraneko_Vel
02/17/20 11:39:48 AM
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It's why they blocked off help from US, so that information doesn't leave the district without them having control over it.

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Joeydollaz
02/17/20 11:43:10 AM
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OP they changed the process


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user78
02/17/20 11:47:12 AM
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Were_Wyrm posted...
Time to spend points making it airborne.
I thought it already was.
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Noraneko_Vel
02/17/20 11:47:21 AM
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Joeydollaz posted...
OP they changed the process

wasn't that to increase the number of how many are infected by counting people based on symptoms?

user78 posted...
I thought it already was.

Corona infects based on droplets. That means cough/sneeze/laugh releasing droplets that would infect those who get exposed to them.

"Airborne" means it can also be on dust particles. Or when just exhaling would let it travel a long distance.

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Sad_Face
02/17/20 11:50:57 AM
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Good good.

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Crepes
02/17/20 12:26:33 PM
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Joeydollaz posted...
OP they changed the process

Been covered but been changed to include MORE. On the link I sent you can see that for a few days they included both the old metric AND the new one and now they've moved over to only the new metric.

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ehhwhatever
02/17/20 12:57:46 PM
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NPR.org:
Worldwide, around 71,000 cases of the new coronavirus have been reported and more than 1,700 people the vast majority of them in mainland China have died of COVID-19, according to the World Health Organization.
Of the new cases, 94% of them are in China's Hubei province, which has been the center for the outbreak. Outside China, there have been reports of 694 cases, causing three deaths.

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Noraneko_Vel
02/17/20 1:01:14 PM
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It's likely coz it's hard to test for it here and some governments are afraid of giving the public too much information (panic spreads viruses)

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pokemon2poker
02/17/20 1:07:36 PM
#16:


No longer a live event

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Noraneko_Vel
02/17/20 1:18:32 PM
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Gladius_ posted...
Interestingly if the reports of deaths and cases outside china are accurat3 the mortality has been steady of 0.40 outside of china. Which while every death is tragic is a good thing.

The mortality rating has been completely wrong from the very beginning.

a) Most cases of 2019-corona seem to be lenient like a harmless cold, especially children who may go through it without symptoms (?). Usually people like these just take meds and continue their business, or stay at home and fight off the symptoms in few days.
--> These people are never added to the statistic

b) The number of infected is probably logged right after they show symptoms, or during their incubation times? People become cured in about 2 weeks? People die in about 1-2 weeks?
--> That means the infected count and death count are not synchronized, because the currently infected may die later.

c) People are apparently getting quarantined in their homes.
--> Further invisible infected/cured/death cases.

d) China is known for not being very honest with what's happening. And they apparently rejected US's medical team?
--> There may be much more cases of infections and deaths.

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PatrickMahomes
02/17/20 7:13:25 PM
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Noraneko_Vel
02/17/20 8:53:22 PM
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Gladius_ posted...
There is less posts each time this thread makes a return.

There's less to discuss. People know the illness now and the news are mostly more of the same.

Oh and I guess a certain someone hasn't found the topic yet so he can't flood China tweets.

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squarion
02/18/20 12:26:28 AM
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GregShmedley posted...
https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1229620725197262848?s=19

Hey, this isn't good news!

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Crepes
02/18/20 4:16:43 AM
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Reminder that for almost the 15th day straight like for like cases have decreased and deaths out China stand at 5.

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Newhopes
02/18/20 4:59:07 AM
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If you think the numbers China is reporting you are a fool.
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Alteres
02/18/20 5:26:01 AM
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Crepes, did you block a couple people?

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Crepes
02/18/20 6:34:14 AM
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Alteres posted...
Crepes, did you block a couple people?

No as a rule I don't block people. I know a few people from the previous topic got banned for trolling.

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Crepes
02/18/20 6:34:53 AM
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Newhopes posted...
If you think the numbers China is reporting you are a fool.

Playing devils advocate lets assume the numbers from China are lies that doesn't explain why cases outside of China are slowing as well.

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Lonestar2000
02/18/20 7:32:13 AM
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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/17/world/asia/coronavirus-westerdam-cambodia-hun-sen.html

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Crepes
02/18/20 7:36:07 AM
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Lonestar2000 posted...
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/17/world/asia/coronavirus-westerdam-cambodia-hun-sen.html

Interesting. Only time will tell if these fears are founded. I would have personally liked to see more care taken over these passengers though.

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Crepes
02/19/20 4:22:11 AM
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Another decrease yesterday in number of new like for like cases.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_outbreak#Epidemiology

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Beyond01
02/19/20 4:46:25 AM
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I was reading about the Spanish Flu and it was theorized for how it ended was that it rapidly mutated into a more harmless disease. So that will hopefully happen with this.

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InfinityMonster
02/19/20 4:48:46 AM
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Alteres posted...
Crepes, did you block a couple people?
Everybody probably has TC blocked because he's the troll that posts major spoilers to movies like Star Wars right in the topic title before they're released.

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Chenmaster2
02/19/20 12:34:56 PM
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Yeah like anyone would believe the Chinese government.

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Noraneko_Vel
02/19/20 12:44:12 PM
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Gladius_ posted...
Honestly this disease is only deadly to the elderly or the immune compromised. Outside China the lethality is .40% whereas in china it is 2%.

It's actually hard to say because not many went through the full 2-3 weeks it takes to become cured.
Furthermore, China likely isn't the only one keeping things secret.

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Crepes
02/19/20 12:57:56 PM
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Chenmaster2 posted...
Yeah like anyone would believe the Chinese government.

Crepes posted...
Playing devils advocate lets assume the numbers from China are lies that doesn't explain why cases outside of China are slowing as well.


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Crepes
02/19/20 12:58:58 PM
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Noraneko_Vel posted...
Furthermore, China likely isn't the only one keeping things secret.

I hate posts like this cause its 100% pure speculation.

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Noraneko_Vel
02/19/20 1:03:21 PM
#39:


Crepes posted...
I hate posts like this cause its 100% pure speculation.

Speculation is all we have at the moment, as it's somehow way too silent outside of China, for a virus that rapidly spread across Asia and wrecked Wuhan.

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Crepes
02/19/20 1:15:56 PM
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Noraneko_Vel posted...
Speculation is all we have at the moment, as it's somehow way too silent outside of China, for a virus that rapidly spread across Asia and wrecked Wuhan.

Unfortunately some people see that as an excuse to post any old crap to drum up fear. Check the last topic for example of all the fear mongering crap people got banned for.

How do you ensure that speculation doesnt just turn into blatant fear mongering and remains grounded in reason?

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Crepes
02/19/20 6:39:32 PM
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Even the MSM are reporting it's slowing down....

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/18/world/asia/china-coronavirus.html

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Crepes
02/19/20 7:24:41 PM
#43:


GregShmedley posted...
That really isn't saying much though. It's only reporting on what China is releasing. At this point, it's a waiting game to see what the spread looks like in the next few weeks in other countries. Japan is a big one to watch.

Not fearmongering, just being realistic. It took almost a year to contain SARS. We are just two months in and have well surpassed the number of confirmed infections and deaths than SARS ended with.

Yes that's true. Just trying to avoid what happened in the last topic which was 99% of the posts being "omg what aren't they telling us I'm scared!!!!"

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user78
02/20/20 3:26:07 AM
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GregShmedley posted...
Totally feel you. There is absolutely reason to question China's numbers but buying into every single negative thing surrounding this is detrimental to one's personal health and is spreading panic.

I do think our media could focus a little more on it though by spreading knowledge about it versus downplaying or hyping it up. Encourage people to wash their hands, cough into their sleeves, clean off their phones, etc.
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PatrickMahomes
02/20/20 3:17:21 PM
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https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/400-current-events/78415326

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Crepes
02/20/20 3:19:30 PM
#48:


PatrickMahomes posted...
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/400-current-events/78415326

thank you good news.

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PatrickMahomes
02/21/20 1:03:06 PM
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/coronavirus-diamond-princess-cruise-americans/2020/02/20/b6f54cae-5279-11ea-b119-4faabac6674f_story.html









Lemme get this straight, CDC says don't bring these CONFIRMED INFECTED people back, but the state said nah fuck you and did it anyways?

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